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    Matilda is a novel by Roald Dahl about a gifted little girl named Matilda who discovers she has telekinetic powers. Matilda comes from a family that ignores her intelligence and she finds solace in reading. She is sent to a school run by the cruel Miss Trunchbull, but finds kindness in her teacher Miss Honey. The original draft of Matilda portrayed her as evil but Dahl rewrote the entire book to show Matilda using her powers to confront the adults mistreating her and help Miss Honey. The book was adapted into a successful film and musical and established Dahl as a renowned children's author.

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    Matilda is a novel by Roald Dahl about a gifted little girl named Matilda who discovers she has telekinetic powers. Matilda comes from a family that ignores her intelligence and she finds solace in reading. She is sent to a school run by the cruel Miss Trunchbull, but finds kindness in her teacher Miss Honey. The original draft of Matilda portrayed her as evil but Dahl rewrote the entire book to show Matilda using her powers to confront the adults mistreating her and help Miss Honey. The book was adapted into a successful film and musical and established Dahl as a renowned children's author.

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    Matilda is a novel by Roald Dahl about a gifted little girl named Matilda who discovers she has telekinetic powers. Matilda comes from a family that ignores her intelligence and she finds solace in reading. She is sent to a school run by the cruel Miss Trunchbull, but finds kindness in her teacher Miss Honey. The original draft of Matilda portrayed her as evil but Dahl rewrote the entire book to show Matilda using her powers to confront the adults mistreating her and help Miss Honey. The book was adapted into a successful film and musical and established Dahl as a renowned children's author.

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    Brief background of Matilda

    This is the story of a sweet bright little girl named Matilda, who is a child of

    wondrous intelligence. But unfortunately she is different from the rest of her family.

    Ignored at home all the time, Matilda escapes into a world of reading, exercising her

    mind so much she develops telekinetic powers. Good thing, too: sent off to a school

    headed by a cruel hulking monster, principal Agatha Trunchbull, Matilda needs all

    the help she can get. Amid Crunchem's darkness, Matilda finds a single light in

    warm-hearted Miss Honey, the first-grade teacher who recognizes the girl's

    remarkable skills--including a very special talent that allows the spirited girl to turn

    the tables on the wicked grown-ups in her world. (Pereyra, n.d.)

    The original draft of Matilda was very different than the final version.

    Originally, Matilda was actually evil, and used her powers for nefarious mischief until

    the last part of the story, when she began to use her powers to help a teacher with

    financial problems. Now, Matilda is a typical Dahl protagonist. She is small and has

    to deal with terrible adults. Matilda is a very sweet girl, who is marvelously intelligent.

    Her intelligence gives her powers of telekinesis, and she uses these powers to play

    tricks on her cruel parents and her fearsome school headmistress, Miss Trunchbull.

    (“Matilda Study Guide,” n.d.)

    It took Dahl at least two years to write and rewrite Matilda. In 1988, the year

    the book was published, he told interviewer Todd McCormack, “I got it wrong. I’d

    spent six or eight or nine months writing it and right when I’d finished, it wasn’t right

    ... it just wasn’t right … I started the whole book again and rewrote every word.” He

    added, “Now I'm fairly happy with it. I think it’s OK, but it certainly wasn’t before.”

    (Mcrobbie, 2015)
    Matilda is a novel written by the famed children’s author Roald Dahl. It was

    first published in 1988 by Jonathan Cape in London. The book was illustrated by

    Dahl’s frequent collaborator Quentin Blake. It has been made into an audiobook, a

    feature film, a two-part radio adaptation, and two different musicals. (“Matilda Study

    Guide,” n.d.)

    Matilda, Roald Dahl’s 27th published book and one of his last for children. The

    novel broke sales records by moving more than a half a million copies in six months

    and went on to win the Children’s Book Award. (Mcrobbie, 2015)

    In 1996 a film version of Matilda was released. Directed by Danny DeVito -

    who also starred as Mr Wormwood, alongside Mara Wilson as Matilda and Pam

    Ferris as Miss Trunchbull - the film went on to become a cult classic.

    In 2010, The Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of Matilda The

    Musical, written by Dennis Kelly and with music and lyrics by Tim Minchin, opened in

    Stratford-upon-Avon, UK, to great critical acclaim. The production transferred to

    London's West End a year later, and in spring 2013 the show opened on Broadway.

    (“Roald Dahl”, n.d.)


    References:

     Pereyra, A. (n.d.). Retrieved from

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117008/plotsummary

     Matilda Study Guide. (n.d.). Retrieved from

    https://www.gradesaver.com/matilda

     Mcrobbie, L.R. (2015, April 10). 7 Things You May Not Know About Matilda.

    Retrieved from http://mentalfloss.com/article/62948/7-things-you-may-not-

    know-about-matilda

     Roald Dahl. (n.d.). Retrieved from

    https://www.roalddahl.com/roald-dahl/stories/k-o/matilda#synopsis

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